Re:Best ways to learn a foreign language
by nandemo on Sunday June 30, 2013 @07:30AM
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Anki (or any other SRS) doesn't have to be about learning words out of context. I've learned a lot with Anki plus sentences off of Tatoeba, which has a large amount of sentences translated into many languages. And I did that while being familiar with the basics of Krashen's ideas. I think there's no contradiction. Learning words and not forgetting them helps me to focus on getting a lot of input on my target language, without the drudge of (re-)looking up the dictionary for every other word.
By the way, (for the benefit of other people reading this) the website you link to has many other interesting articles about language learning vs. acquisition.
http://tatoeba.org/eng/
By the way, (for the benefit of other people reading this) the website you link to has many other interesting articles about language learning vs. acquisition.